Hegar

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich idiot says dumb shit is not news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans are social mammals. In many important respects, it makes no sense to even think of us as individuals.

  I suspect that in the past people with higher levels of social anxiety probably just spoke a little less than average, and noticably less on the much less frequent times they met strangers.

  But i think it's its probably very inaccurate to imagine anyone who we'd recognize as an "introvert" in the much more collectivist cultures that dominate history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You never missed anything important⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We're social mammals and we will always spend large amounts of time engaging in social behaviour.

  It maintains relationships, strengthens bonds, makes it easier to obtain aid, helps reinforce our positions within our identity groups, etc. etc.

  Even when the words being shared are complete nonsense, conversing is never nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manic Stew⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lack of coordination baked potatoes.

  My favourite actual horse name is pretty close. I think it was from the 1800s: Potoooooooo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You never missed anything important⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Narrator: they were not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He's not and he won't. He no longer has the mental capacity for that kind of planning, he never displayed it before he went senile. Plus he's a coward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess we must've liked it.

  Since we put a ring on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  they hated jeebus

  It ok, I forgive them, they know not what they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is an objective truth of our reality, not subject to opinion or reasonable discussion, that peanuts are subpar on average and average at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You sir are worse than hitler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The peanut mania that grips this nation and blinds people to objective fact has you in it's tentacular grasp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so undeniably, objectively true.

  Peanuts end up in everything because they're very cheap, not because they're that good.

  Peanut butter is ... fine. That's all you can honestly say. PB&J is edible at it's best, and then only rarely. Reese's is a testament to how easy it is to sell coagulated sugar and salt. Bougie peanut butter cups are just polished turds.

  Thai is the only cuisine that knows what to do with peanuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll be seeing an uptick in UFO sightings soon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always heard that UFO sightings dropped drastically once cell phones became widespread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  BLM ... Meaning still unclear

  During a really bad wildfire season here in OR a few years back there was a story going round that police reported Black Lives Matter activists had set up check points in rural, fire-stricken areas to harass and intimidate honest, trump-loving oregonians or maybe even because they were the ones starting the fires.

  This misinfo came from people listening to police radio frequencies, but not understanding that BLM meant Bureau of Land Management.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  arcadey shooting galleries we have instead.

  Yes. It felt very state fair bb gun shooting gallery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the mission where you get drunk.

  That was excellent. I couldn't stop myself telling my wife and several equally disinterested coworkers about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've recently turned into a blocker.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I blocked like that on reddit but here I feel there's fewer users and I have to give people credit for being on the fediverse - that earns almost everyone a "well maybe you just had a bad day".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give. It. Back.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are three uses of the word pasta and two of them are very ostentatiously missing their punctuation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I've been playing RDR2 for the first time. The story is very good, very cinematic. The pace of gameplay is often quite slow, certainly for hunting. And the level of attention to detail enhances the feel of realism ... And then you headshot like 20-50 people using bullet time and chowing down on 5 tins of chewing tobacco mid fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HEAR YE, HEAR YE !⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Collaborators, not just clients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of those important pieces of data that bears remembering in many different contexts: the rich will happily kill you for a buck. That's a big part of why they're rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trivago⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Omg never do I get so many downvotes as when I point out how unnatural a white wall of american teeth look.

  To me it's like neck rings or cranial deformation. Intellectually I understand it's a cultural practice that must display worth to those within the culture or they wouldn't do it. But that's not the effect it has on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, abduction is a magic speciality that prevents you learning alteration or illusion spells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meyers-Briggs workshop

  I don't put much stock in business astrology grifters myself 😆. But I definitely agree that we adapt our behaviors to the people and situations that we're in. I would strongly disagree with that last third though - we are always who we really are.

  The behaviors we're reluctant or incapable of changing around others are no more us than the behaviours that we have stronger insight into and control over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don't think "being yourself" is a thing that anyone has to worry about. You can only ever be yourself.

  As you point out, we're social mammals. We always exist in a social context and the behaviors that benefit us are highly dependent on that context.

  It's also perfectly natural for our identities to change over time. We don't "discover the real me" we adopt new identities that benefit us more. That's just how being a human is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Congyoubingius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trapeze artists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet another problem that wouldn't exist with a properly unionized work force. If your boss tells you to work when sick, there's only one person who should be shat on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's just science, i guess⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, could be. There's non-homogenized milk that we get sometimes here but it's nowhere as good as I remember that UK milk being. Maybe it's just distant childhood memories being incorrect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's just science, i guess⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Raw milk is way tastier though. The clearest memory I have from visiting the UK at 9 y/o was the milk from the milk rounds being unreasonably delicious. Like so much better i wasn't sure it was milk.

  It's obviously not the right choice to fulfill the nations milk needs, that's a public health disaster. But I wish it was available in limited, risk-minimized contexts like in most of Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Pure Incitement': Google Allows Israeli Sponsored Propaganda Aimed at Global Sumud Flotilla⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google has allowed the government of Israel to purchase sponsored content spots so that online users searching on the Global Sumud Flotilla will be shown inaccurate, propagandized content accusing the flotilla particpants as being allied with violent, terrorist elements.

  Like every youtube ad, google is once more foisting objectively false bullshit on the public.

  Maybe next they'll claim that bombing peace activists is ten times more effective than ozempic?